Welcome, welcome, welcome. If you’re here, you’re in the right place. As ever, we have a veritable bucket load of ace pictures from Russia and the ex-Soviet countries. It’s a mixed bag, but you’d be daft to expect anything else from the largest country on earth.

There will be fear, there will be cake, there will be a smattering of danger, there will be cats, and there will be baked goods. When you’re living in the icy north, you need all of the above to guarantee at least some level of happiness.